Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a drooping position; bending with a quick motion: as, a nodding plume; specifically, in botany, having a short bend in the peduncle below the flower, causing the latter to face downward; cernuous.
- noun The act of one who nods: also used attributively: as, a nodding acquaintance (an acquaintance involving no recognition other than a nod).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Curved so that the apex hangs down; having the top bent downward.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
nod .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having branches or flower heads that bend downward
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Examples
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I have tried to discipline myself in nodding knowingly.
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Watching a video of one such speech shows Palin nodding up and down after.
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I have tried to discipline myself in nodding knowingly.
February « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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PCJ: I see his name nodding toward my son on the list, but not yours.
Passport fiasco finale | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007
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"My son, " Kezia repeated in English, nodding and pulling me into a hug.
Dreams From My Father Obama, Barack 1995
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Then she pointed again, a little more to the right, and said something in Welsh, nodding her head.
Five Get Into A Fix Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1958
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Because they had become addicted to what one driver called the "nodding acquaintance with death."
Living Fast and Dying Young Mark Yost 2011
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I'm reading it now based on his example though I don't know whether you can call nodding off at night after one page, and occasionally one paragraph, reading and I later heard that President Obama had taken it with him on his Christmas vacation to Hawaii.
The Coolest Dude Alive Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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A pumpjack, also known as a nodding donkey, operates above a Chevron Corp. oil well in the Midway-Sunset oil field near Taft, Calif. in February.
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A fragrant white or pink form is called the nodding wake robin.
The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Ellen Eddy Shaw
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